The Hot Air Podcast was a series I recorded with my friend Vic Drover for Watchful.net. In the first episode, we talk with Eoin Oliver of Square Balloon, a London agency active in the UK Joomla community. We talk about how a MailChimp directory listing fueled his growth, handling the highs and lows of agency life, and his plans for 2020. People in this episode
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Dan Maby, who runs the WordPress agency Blue 37 and leads WPandUP, a non-profit that supports mental health in the WordPress community. We talk about why he started WPandUP, the help it offers, and DoSummitGood, its Giving Tuesday online event. People in this episode
In the first episode of Season 2 of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Miguel Balparda of Nexcess, who spends most of the year traveling from Argentina to Magento events around the world. Miguel explains how Magento 2 and its community have changed, and where the platform is heading. People in this episode
Last July, I turned 40. For some people that’s not a huge milestone, but for me it was. I felt stale and in need of fresh challenges. So from last summer to this summer, I worked on making changes. Some things happened: I bought out my main business partner and made a significant move into WordPress. But, by-and-large, it was a year of slow negotiations, many discussions and lots of tire-kicking. I even sat for my first job interview in 15 years, before realizing that was the wrong direction.
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with April Sides, a Drupal developer at Lullabot who is helping the State of Georgia move its many sites to Drupal 8. We talk about that project, her recent work, and takeaways from DrupalCon Seattle. People in this episode
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk again with Zac Gordon about teaching JavaScript to WordPress developers. We also cover how yoga shapes the way he works and teaches, and what he’s learned from launching React courses. People in this episode
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Jason Coleman, who runs Paid Memberships Pro, one of the most popular membership plugins for WordPress. He shares practical lessons from running his own membership business and from watching thousands of customer sites succeed and fail. People in this episode
Looking back over the last 18 months, most of the posts on this blog have been about acquisitions. This post has a summary of them all. I should blog more about other things, but the acquisitions have kept me busy!
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Ben Pines, CMO at Elementor, who explains how the page builder grew from zero to nearly two million installs in about two and a half years. We discuss the marketing behind that growth and how Elementor fits alongside Gutenberg. People in this episode
In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Amanda Gonser and Karlyanna from the DrupalCon team, who preview DrupalCon Seattle. After roughly a decade of the same format, the team is trying something different, and they explain what is changing and why. People in this episode